The Common Touch (1941)

6.8/10 • 104 min • Drama

Overview

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

Cast

Geoffrey Hibbert

Peter Henderson

Harry Welchman

Lincolns Inn

Greta Gynt

Sylvia Meadows

Joyce Howard

Mary

Edward Rigby

'Tich'

Bransby Williams

Ben

George Carney

Charlie

Eliot Makeham

Inky

Raymond Lovell

Cartwright

John Longden

Stuart Gordon

Wally Patch

'Nobby'

Bernard Miles

Cricket Steward

Jerry Verno

Office Messenger

Charles Carson

Haywood

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